Posted on 04/28/2020 11:15:48 PM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Thomas Massie, who attracted widespread attention as well as derision from colleagues for trying to force a recorded vote on the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill last month, fired back at his critics in an interview Tuesday with Fox News -- saying the election season has caused certain GOP lawmakers to “abandon some of their conservative principles.”
The Kentucky Republican voiced concern over the historic price tag for rescue packages that have swept through Congress in a matter of weeks. The four bills, which largely enjoyed bipartisan support and were signed by President Trump, totaled nearly $3 trillion, and another could be under consideration. All this has prompted warnings from nonpartisan fiscal scorekeepers about a looming deficit and debt explosion.
Massie argues these bills -- filled with small business loans and industry lifelines and stimulus checks and unemployment aid and money for hospitals -- don’t adequately address the economic fallout.
“The last two bills have been like blood transfusions to a bleeding patient, and the problem is we haven’t stopped the bleeding yet—the patient is our economy,” he told Fox News. “What we need to do is we need to stop the bleeding. We need to get America back to work and that’s the only thing that’s going to turn everything around.
Massie went on to say the election year is also clouding Democrats’ decisions, noting “they want to be Santa Claus and want to give money away because it will help them get re-elected.”
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The GOP has no intention of winning the House, and they probably would be fine with losing the Senate also.
Imagine if we lose all 3? Goodbye 2nd and goodbye world leadership status.
As Massie said: Santa Claus.
I predict the Democrats will run on more checks and stimulus and the sheeple will vote for it.
2000 a month forever...or until employment numbers get up to some arbitrary number.
I’m glad mom got a 1200 buck check but folks on SS, their income wasn’t affected. BUT prices went up for everything and we need to care for our elderly. One time thing...with all the trillions spent..that was a drop.
Why add 500 bucks a week to unemployment for so long?
It will be MUCH more than most on it make and they ain’t gonna be looking for work.
Even 250 but 500??!?!
Don’t want to think about the $$ stolen from small business fund
But we will find out in some years organized crime made a fortune.
They are over-extended, as are the Federal & (blue) State obligations.
A brief 4-week shutdown equivalent to France's annual summer vacation should not trigger a rush to pass $6-Trillion in bailouts. Were our country's public and private sector finances sustainably organized...
This situation remains ridiculous, and is clear evidence of decades-long government failure. When I see Mnuchin on TV I wonder how he keeps a straight face as he and Powell move to spike the Federal debt and money supply as a policy "solution." When business pundits offer repeated remarks like "Thank goodness policymakers are taking decisive steps," I LOL and think - "towards what!?" Hyperinflation and financial collapse.
A seasonal respiratory infection was used to further hollow out the US financial system.
Everything Austrian School economists have written has proven correct.
Thomas Jefferson was right too. "I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
wow. yeah what a mess. Everything is propped up by nothing.
There really are no more political solutions.
it doesn’t matter...they’re useless anyway
We had to destroy the economy to save it. Sounds familiar.
I love a Jefferson quote. Thanks for posting it.
Stop pearl clutching about an election that is not going to happen.
As far as I’m concerned, we lost the country before Trump was elected. In fact, Donald Trump’s win occured because just a very small majority of is (I don’t call Californian illegal aliens votes as valid) wanted someone to try and fix it.
But he has been stymied and opposed by everyone. Those of us who still support him are now being told to drink bleach and F off.
The sheeple want their moneys.
He’s right.
I have news for Congressman Massie. His GOP colleagues abandoned conservative principles long ago. And the only time they move back towards them a tiny bit is when a Democrat is in the White House.
I think that ship sailed a while ago.
I have news for Congressman Massie. His GOP colleagues abandoned conservative principles long ago. And the only time they move back towards them a tiny bit is when a Democrat is in the White House.
Where was the brave Massie when Paul Ryan was busy throwing the House to the Dems? He was quiet as a mouse. Now he talks tough while in the minority. Typical beltway theater hot air. I’m not buying what he is selling. Massie is also part of the problem.
The problem is the voters, most of them are nothing but spoiled children. We’ve got the government we deserve.
The GOP has no intention of winning the House, and they probably would be fine with losing the Senate also.
They certainly were comfortable with Hillary in the WH and a Hillary SCOTUS. Then Ryan retired while in office, threw the House to Pelosi and nobody in the GOP called him out.
Graham even bragged about not voting for POTUS. And kept his powerful Senate judiciary committee chairmanship. Can you imagine a Democrat Senator not supporting a Democrat for POTUS and keeping his chairman role? Not in a million years.
“throw Massie out of Republican Party!”
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